workup

plural workups · alternative work-up

1. countablemedicineA general medical examination to assess a person's health and fitness.
2. countableuncountablechemistryAll the additional procedures and reactions carried out after the main chemical reaction to obtain the desired product.
3. countableuncountablegovernmentA period of training or preparation, typically for a specific operation.
4. uncountableSynonym of scrub baseball.

   The first time I saw Amity we were in front of her house playing work-up, a baseball variation where you move from position to position by outs until you get to bat.

   2014, Tom Bentley, Flowering: And Other Stories

   Synonyms: scrub baseball

5. countableuncountableAn unfinished or unfinalized version; a draft, prototype.

   He toured Japan with Judy Collins, and on his return in 1967, he presented the initial work-up on "Alice's Restaurant" at the WNYC Folk Song Festival.

   1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 289

6. countableuncountableA dossier.

   They found another gun, a Glock, more ammunition. But the most troubling thing they found was a manila folder with a workup on Justice Sonia Sotomayor.

   2021 February 21, 60 Minutes, season 53, episode 23, spoken by Esther Salas, via CBS